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// Annual Report - 2021
WSQ Programmes
The Institute for Adult Learning (IAL) is the sole provider of Training and Adult Education (TAE) programmes to qualify adult educators to be trainers, assessors and curriculum developers under the Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) system to meet the growing skills needs of industries in Singapore. In 2021, IAL offered 14,099 training places and trained 4,081 individuals under its WSQ Programmes.
During the year, IAL ran regular intakes of its flagship WSQ Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance programme and the new WSQ Diploma in Design and Development of Learning for Performance, launched to replace the WSQ Diploma in Adult and Continuing Education in April 2021. The new programme was designed to equip learners with the competencies to develop effective blended curricula to cater to today’s learning needs, inspire excellence and drive performance.
Other programmes available at IAL are the WSQ Workplace Learning Facilitator, and the WSQ Advanced Facilitation Programme.
Advanced Programmes
Adult educators can deepen their knowledge and skills further through other programmes, such as the Master of Learning and Professional Development offered by IAL and Griffith University. Two intakes were conducted during the year for 31 industry practitioners and occupational experts.
Under the ambit of SUSS, IAL developed a graduate certificate and a master’s programme in 2021, which will both welcome their first intakes in early 2022. The six-month Graduate Certificate in Workplace Learning comprises taught courses imbued with authentic case studies, real-life examples and substantive reflections as well as a work-learn component where learners undertake real consultancy projects. The new Master in Boundary-Crossing Learning and Leadership is an innovative transdisciplinaryfocused programme to prepare TAE professionals and leaders to lead and strategise effectively as organisational change-makers in a highly disruptive world. It offers four independent Graduate Certificates with emphasis on practice and application.
Continuing Professional Development
In 2021, IAL’s Adult Education Network gave more than 4,400 members access to opportunities to collaborate and acquire new skills at Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes, as a continuation of their TAE professional development journey after obtaining full qualification certificates. To improve lesson design and delivery, IAL redesigned and curated full-day or multi-day CPD programmes to cater to the learning needs of the Adult Education Network members.
In total, 48 CPD runs with 1,215 training places, were conducted during the year. New CPD courses were developed and delivered based on IAL’s research projects such as the Six Principles of Learning Design and Understanding Sense-Making for Quality Blended-Learning Design and Delivery.
Adult Education Professionalisation
IAL’s Adult Education Professionalisation seeks to advance the standards and identity of adult educators recognised for both pedagogical and professional excellence. Under this programme, the number of Associate Adult Educators and Specialist Adult Educators grew to 1,700 and close to 620 respectively, while the number of Adult Education Fellows stood at five in 2021.
// Annual Report - 2021
SECRET Online Learning Framework
IAL and its partners in the TAE community designed a new online learning framework covering the principles and practices for facilitating online learning. Named SECRET (short for Social Collaboration, Emotional and Physical Health, Cognition, Reflection, Economics and Technology), the online learning framework leveraged IAL’s pedagogical expertise and experience in shifting fully to online learning.
The framework was developed into a three-day online and one-day hands-on workshop for trainers and adult educators. The programme also shares ways on how TAE practitioners can use social media platforms and learning technologies to enhance online delivery of training. Two runs of the programme were completed in September and October 2021 for 21 participants. Adult Education Network 4,426
2021 AT A GLANCE Adult Education Professionalisation 2,651 Members Members
Adjunct Adult Educators 84 WSQ Programmes 14,099 Training Places
Developing the Adult Education Community Programmes 5,979
Non-WSQ Programmes 233 Training Places
Training Places
